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> green liners grounded. the latest emergency in the bay area travelers planted in tokyo. good evening i'm liz beth cook. >> and i'm ken. this is not good news for one bay area airport. cbs 5 reporter juliette goodrich is at san jose. . >> ana terminal is empty that.'s because that non-stop flight that everyone was celebrating last week has been grounded from san jose to tokyo. in fact, all ana japan airline 787s have been grounded, this after major problems especially happening tonight. we'll show you the video. just imagine those san jose travelers in tokyo right now. they were suppose today return tomorrow. they were scrambling to find another way home. >> airways flight 692 with 129 passengers on board made an emergency landing at airport in japan. those on board reported a burning smell a battery problem
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triggered a cockpit air forcing pilots to land the plane. tonight ana announced it has grounded all of its 17 dream liners this following a series of problems the past four months from oil leaks to fuel leaks to engine cracks and damaged cockpit windows and now an emergency landing. last friday san jose international airports inaugural non-stop flight from san jose to tokyo on the 787 dream liner. chris mcginnis editor of abare a travel blog flew out saturday on a nonstop flight san jose to tokyo and spoke to cbs 5 via skype tonight from tokyo. >> the boeing 787 dream liner kind of blew me away. i really enjoyed the flight. >> san jose was expecting to enjoy a projected $77.2 million per year with ana's five nonstop flights per week.
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mcginnis predicts the grounding is temporary. >> it doesn't mean that the flight is going to stop. it may be cancelled today but it could come back shortly. we don't know yet. >> ana today issued the following statement, quote ana is confident of the safety of the dream liner and as a matter of course inspects all boeing 787 aircraft on a daly basis to ensure safety of our operation. and boeing tonight also issuing this statement quote they are working with the appropriate regulator agency but as of tonight all 17 dream liner with ana and japan airlines grounded. in san jose, cbs 5. right now police are looking for a man who tried to run off with a two-year-old girl. she was playing in the front yard of her house on a 200 block of day court in east san jose just after 5:00 this afternoon. that's when the little girl's mother says a strange man approached her daughter. the mom then picked her up and told police that's when the man grabbed the girl's legs then
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tried to pull her away. she was able to hold onto her daughter. the suspect ran off and he's described as a his panic man in his twenties wearing a red baseball hat and a yellow striped shirt. the mom said he smelled like automotive oil. a veteran bay area cop accused of hooking up with a prostitute is off the hook, and he's back at work. cbs 5 talked to the prosecutor and asked him why did you drop the case. >> at this motel 6 in sunny vail police officers had been tailing a wanted prostitute for awhile and decided it was time to knock and go in. according to the police report from february 2011, the prostitute answered the door in a cat suit with 20 bills stuffed into her cleavage. they also found this man his photo posted by on the web shows him in uniform. officer discovered vas kez in the bathroom. he was on his knees and completely nude.
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according to the report, the hooker told officers the two had found each other on myredbook.com, an online directory for escorts with ads for sexual services. @ report says vasquez admitted he was there for sex, but officers got there before anything happened. >> when you first saw the report did it look like a slam-dunk conviction to you. >> it looks -- that was strong case. it was a very strong case. >> the santa clara county district attorney's office charged vas kez with a misdemeanor count of soliciting prostitution but a star witness could not testify because of a serious family medical emergency so the case was dismiss sgld while it may be frustrating on one level i have a duty as a prosecutor to only prosecute cases i can prove beyond a reasonable doubt and if i don't have a witness or i can't prove a case, i have to dismiss or can't go forward with it. >> vasquez was serving a warrant on a sexual assault case when he quote had an hour to kill and called a prostitute.
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the department launched an internal affairs investigation but since the criminal charge was dismissed vasquez successfully appealed. late last year the veteran was back on the job making $109,000 a year. >> whaen criminal case is dismissed against a law enforcement ol official it's natural for someone to ask if the officer or the cop was getting special treatment, and that's not the case in this case. >> back here live at the motel 6 where it all went down, an officer asked vasquez why he did it. he said he's divorce and had his mother recently died and he quote felt like a loser. neither vasquez or the department or the city manager returned our repeated phone calls. well, a lot of hope is riding on the arifle of the man known as the supercop. bill bratten is his name. he has led police departments in both new york and los angeles and he is ready now to help the city of oakland for a substantial fee, of course.
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tells us not everyone is rolling out the red carpet for him in part because what he told cbs 5 last night. >> protesters jam oakland city council chambers irate over this man's words. >> for any city to say they don't do stop and frisk i'm sorry, they don't know what the hell they're talking about. >> bill bratton former police chief of los angeles and new york may be the most unapologetic proponent of stop and frisk, the concept that allows police officers to search anyone who they have reasonable suspicion is involved in criminal activity. >> any police department in america that tries to function without some form of stop and frisk or whatever terminology they use is doom today failure. >> he's on his way to becoming a highly-paid consultant for the city of oakland. >> chief, is it safe to say you and bill bratton are on the same page when it comes to stop and frisk. >> i think we're saying the same thing. >> marchers who say stop and
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frisk unfairly targets minorities stormed the city hal steps as council members prepared to vote on a $250,000 contract to bring bratton in. >> stop and frisk doesn't work. look at new york city. >> new york city's stop and frisk program resulted in more than 700 thousand stops in 2011 according to the new york times. 85% of those stopped were black or hispanic men and the vast majority of the stops discovered no wrong doing. >> some people are arguing that it's a slippery slope to racial profiling. >> well, as i mentioned earlier we do not condone racial profiling. >> jordan says bill bratton won't be the only one consulting on this crime plan. he wants to hear the voices of the community, though at the end of the day how to fight crime here is up to him. >> i'm the police chief. i'm the guy that gets to decide what practice we're going to do and how we're going to do because i'm the person that's going to be held accountable so i want to make that very clear. bill bratton will be giving me advice, and it's up to me to implement it. how i do it and if i do it is
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really on my shoulders. >> new information the public safety committee just voted a short time ago to approve that $250,000 contract but not necessarily with bill bratton on board. they want more information about bratton and about other possible alternatives to him so they're pushing it through to the city council. city council will pick it back up in a week. live in oakland cbs 56. many gun owners who are ready to trade in their weapons for cash walked away with ious instead. 827 guns were turned in at a buyback today, and they just kept coming and coming all day. cbs 5 reporter grace lee on the huge turnout marin county wasn't expecting. >> the aim to get guns off the street. the trade, drop off your legal or illegal firearms, no questions are asked and you get cash. a hun dollars for operable gun #12k30s for semiautomatic weapon
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sdmrs i've had them for years. i don't use them. i don't feel any need to keep them around, and cash is better at this point you know. pay some bills. >> we need to be mothers against guns. guns are killing our children. guns are killing our -- our children in the streets and in the schools and mothers just need to get mad about guns. >> are you mad. >> i'm mad. >> this gun buy back happened at five locations in marin county today, at the novato police station the line snaked down the street and business also brisk at the police authority, so brisk in fact that the $43,000 raised for the program was gone in about an hour. >> i am very gratified by what we've seen as far as weapons being turned in, and it is more than i expected, to be honest. >> marin county district attorney ed spearheaded this program, and he says with no more cash on hand, officers had
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to begin handing out vouchers. if baa barren is able to raise more money in 30 days, the county will honor them. grace lee cbs 5. coming up, lance armstrong confesses to oprah. silicon valley tycoon caught up in the scandal. and facebook's bigamist mystery revealed. and the bay area performers dancing on skyscrapers. the color is red at tower right now for the san francisco 49ers but been all blue on our weather map because it's been so cold every night. find out when that finally will change and when you likely will see the mid 60s. your forecast next.
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learned: a silicon valley p in the mess. . lance armstrong confesses he was pedalling lies, and we learned a silicon valley tycoon is caught up in the mess. in an interview with oprah armstrong confirmed what many people suspected all along that he used performance-enhancing drugs. the interview airs thursday but oprah talked about it today exclusively on cbs this morn
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sdmrg did he confess? did he come clean in the manner that you expected. >> i would say he did not come clean in the manner that i expected. it was surprising to me. i would say that for myself, my team, all of us in the room, we were mesmerized and vif etted by some of his answers but i think the most important questions and the answers that -- that people around the world have been waiting to hear were answered and certainly answered -- i can only say i was satisfied by the answers. >> for years armstrong denied allegations that he doped and dared anyone who challenged him to prove it. cbs news has learned that he offered at least a limited confession to oprah. >> i think he was just ready. i think the velocity of everything that's come at him in the past several months, in particular the past several weeks, he was just ready.
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>> armstrong won the tour defrance seven times. late last year the u.s. antidoping agency produced evidence that armstrong's team ran what it called the most sophisticated, professionalize and had successful doping program the sport has ever seen. scott pelley talk today one of armstrong's former teammates tyler hamilton who helped him win the tour de france. >> would there have been a lance armstrong doping. >> doping definitely helped him. . >> now armstrong's main financial backer is a bay area tycoon named thomas wizel. he's famous for taking yahoo public. he also holds the holding company for armstrong's cycling team. the contract banned doping, and according to the bay citizen
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government investigators have subpoenaed wizel. armstrong has offered to repay more than $5 million to compensate for the fraud he allegedly committed against the postal service and taxpayers and the feds turned him down saying it's not enough. a big day for facebook. the company revealed a new search engine. it's called graph search, and it allows you to narrow your searchs through different categories people, photos, places, interests. for example, you can search for friends in san francisco who like cbs 5. it'll take a long time because there are a lot of them, but graph search is available by invitation only for now. some oakland performers are turning modern dance on its side literally. >> they dance on skyscrapers and cliffs with rock climbing gear. it's pretty amazing. reporter ben tracy got a lesson 150 feet in the air. >> they call themselves bandaloo, a troupe that takes
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dance, turns it on its head and puts it walls all over the world. >> where did the idea come from? what was the genesis of this. >> one day clinging to a cliff in the sierra looking out at the vast view, i asked this question what -- what would it be like to dance here, what would that mean. >> it meant combining ameal yeah's love of dance with her then boyfriend peter mayfield's passion for rock climbing. >> double double double. >> for 22 years now they have used the tools of rock climbing to scale their stages. >> perfect. >> executive director thomas cavanaugh oversees the performance. safety always comes first. >> everything is locked. >> dancer rachel lincoln says her job is to make this look
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easy, which it is not. >> you need to be really strong, honestly to do this work, because gravity is there all the time. we are not gravity defieing. >> the only way to understand just how hard this is is to try it. >> that is locked. >> they put me in a safety harness, and before i knew it. >> two of us together hanging out on the wall in oakland. >> we were 115 feet in the air and i learned how tough this really is. >> this is going to go over your head. you're going to spring off your feet. spring off your feet. spring off your feet. look at me, look at me, look at me. all right. you did it. >> well, let's be honest, she did it. >> that's crazy. >> while i may be more comfortable on the ground. >> back on the ground. >> touchdown.
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>> wow. >> it is beautiful. this guy defies gravity every night. >> fly over the weather center. >> yeah. >> i tell you what, we have all that cold air which has been sinking down to where we are over the past several days. things not changing perhaps as quickly as we would like. peak outside earlier this evening, crescent moon. with clear skies we are getting chilly once again. get right to the temperatures because they will be below freezing again. no freeze warnings in effect but cold again. livermore, fairfield napa, santa rosa before freezing. san francisco mieder, 44. fremont, 36, vallejo 35, so baby steps back to normal temperatures buzz been chilly. san jose 34 and livermore an average low over the past seven days of 30 degrees. radar is clear with that big dome of high pressure over top of us. we're going to stay clear on cbs 5 high deaf doppler for awhile, and this is a huge ridge of high
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pressure about a thousand miles offshore not coming down until you get to eastern montana and north dakota. that's a big ridge and going to be centered -- this is key it's going to be centered right over top of us over the next couple of days. that means slowly the atmosphere will continue to warm. some of you will hit 60 degrees tomorrow. most of us will get there on thursday. once we get there the temperatures aren't going to move much. we will be above normal for much of the next week once we get there tomorrow. the amps will get milder and will be somewhere close to 60 degrees just about every day for the next week so tomorrow we're back to normal. average high for san jose 59 tomorrow. 59 greece. santa clara 59. los gatos 59 degrees palo alto also 59. mid 50s a little cooler because of your chillier start for san ramon, concord fairfield 55. petaluma 58. downtown san francisco 56 degrees. we get into the 60s near the bay and inland on thursday. that's where we're going to stay. what a fantastic january
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weekend. mainly sunny skies low to mid 60s. milds coming but we're not there yet tonight. >> all right. >> beautiful. >> getting better. >> warming up just a little bit. >> just a little bit every day. >> we'll take it. >> walk before we run. >> we'll be right back.
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the soft-drink company admits being a part of the obesity problem in a controversial new t- . no more sugar coating for coca-cola. the soft drink company is admitting being part of the obesity problem in oo controversial new tv ad. the ad started running last nielth. koch says it's aware of the part that it's playing in the obesity epidemic, and it wants to help fight it, but critics say the company is simply doing damage control in the wake of a lot of campaigns to limit soft drink servings. there's an unusual ingredient in some new girl scout cookies. vitamins. >> the new cookies are called mango creams with nutrafusion. the cream center supposedly features the new trigsal benefits of eating cranberries pom gran ets oranges grapes and strawberries. the cooky is available for a limited time only.
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>> put me town for ten box sfls no. give me the thin mints and don't put any vitamins on them. okay. guess who was on the cover of sports illustrated? the former coach who must stop the team that he helped build.
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" " . well, there is a long list of great 49er quarterbacks who have graced the coffer of sports illustrated, but. >> i want the rest of you cowboys to know something. there's a new sheriff in town. >> that is colin kaepernick on this week's coffer. you know that steve young was on five times. joe montana 13 times. steve spurrer and john bro di have also been on. one year ago alex smith was on the cover before losing the nfc championship against the giants but don't expect any kind of si jings this time around. >> last year going into it we really didn't know what to expect. not many of us had been in the playoffs previously. you know we got in there. the intensity was a little bit more than what we expected. you know, we adjusted. we played well, beat the saints, and we went out there against you know new york giants, and
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we didn't take care of business. we didn't really understand the magnitude of the moment. >> they do now. five of the 49ers nine probowlers were brought to san francisco by former head coach mike nolan. >> here we go. let's go. it's on the script. stay with the script. >> nolan is gone from calling falcon in san francisco to coaching them in atlanta. here's the defensive coordinator for the falcons now. he's a little fearful of the team he helped build in san francisco. >> it's nice to know certain guys because you got to know how far they go, but i hate to say it, but the guys that we added i wish they wouldn't go as far because they're pretty good so it's really not a good thing i know that. frank goree is a great example on offense. vernon davis. all those guys are very good players, you know. looking back on it now, if we had had a lot of bad once, maybe that would have been the way to go but we didn't. >> he's got his hand full but he is a klass act.
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time for the tuesday night top five. lit up red for 49ers nice touch but got nothing on lou lewis light show. basketball in brooklyn raptors gave him a show put back dunk one more time there. at no. 3, keep your eye on the lost shoe in the iowa/northwest earn thing. aaron wide picks it up and almost takes coach off in the process. >> no. 2, who needs a fishing rod when you could bring monsters like this up with your bear arm? polish player yuri genowitch pulled a mack and row. >> how many times? how many times. >> he won it in five seconds. we'll be right back.
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